The result was an immensely enjoyable comedy that plays as one of the better wedding movies you'll ever see, full of great laughs and plenty of twists and turns.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Feb 16, 2024

You'll see everything coming a mile away, you'll feel manipulated but you'll also laugh and maybe even shed a tear.

| Original Score: 2.5/5 | Feb 1, 2021

While The Best Man Holiday is far from flawless, it's a solid and reasonably entertaining effort.

| Original Score: 2.5/4.0 | Sep 2, 2020

I like being around these characters, and wouldn't mind visiting them again sometime down the line ... It's too bad they exist in a story that lacks the same charisma they have.

| Original Score: C+ | Jul 23, 2020

The result is a joyous, raucous, righteous film but also a frustrating and disappointing one. Not quite the gift of the season some had hoped for.

| Nov 5, 2019

Yet for all its tonal missteps and traditional tropes, "The Best Man Holiday" has something rare at its very center - genuine emotion.

| Original Score: 6.9/10 | Nov 5, 2019

The Best Man Holiday works -- largely because of its cast. The actors feel at home with these characters. They are having fun, and that fun is transferred to the audience.

| Apr 9, 2019

Lee's narrative does a good job of balancing weighty drama with comedic moments. Most importantly, the various quandaries Harper and co find themselves in feel real, relevant and grounded.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Mar 6, 2019

The Best Man Holiday offers up heaps of laughs and tears, and was a pleasant relief from all of the dreary films as of late. This is one Holiday I plan to revisit every year.

| Original Score: 8/10 | Oct 12, 2018

Touching, fun, unexpected yet a bit disjointed, The Best Man Holiday will satisfy die-hard fans of the first film and help usher in the holiday movie season.

| Original Score: B | Sep 6, 2017

Earnest performances by Morris Chestnut and Monica Calhoun anchor the film.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Mar 21, 2017

Still, The Best Man Holiday contains some strong moments and good acting; the cast is as likable as ever, even if the film doesn't take many bold risks.

| Original Score: C+ | Jun 22, 2016

This is a film about friendships, faith and family and, laden with bittersweet moments, triggers those tear ducts.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Mar 28, 2016

It's an odd mix of bawdy comedy and blatant heart-tugging -- you'll be cringeing one moment and sniffing the next.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Feb 7, 2014

If the original The Best Man was a smooth, R&B jam then The Best Man Holiday is a slick hip-hop beat. It's bigger and flashier. I missed the scrappiness of the original...

| Original Score: B | Dec 26, 2013

The first half is such an agreeably raucous reunion that we hate to see a pesky thing like terminal illness ruin all the fun.

| Dec 15, 2013

You leave emotionally exhausted, but there's a lot of care in this movie.

| Dec 10, 2013

While the script may be uneven and the film itself overlong, the cast make for winning company, turning a deft hand to material that zigzags between bawdy and mawkish, somehow keeping it on just the right side of sympathetic.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Dec 1, 2013

The Best Man Holiday pigs out on every plot at a slow, bloated Christmas pace. Watch out, movie punters. We're segueing into Part Three.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Nov 29, 2013

The sweet 'n' sour mood turns purely gloopy in the last act, which involves a certain football game and the intervention of an earth-bound angel.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Nov 29, 2013